It’s always a pleasure to introduce a new poster by Sam Smith, whom I’ve been writing about ever since he first exploded on the movie poster scene ten years ago with a now-iconic poster for another Japanese film featuring a cat. His brand new design is for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II, a lovely, enigmatic film about doubles and identity which premiered at Cannes last year (Daniel Kasman wrote about it here) and played at the New York Film Festival. Best known for his five-hour drama of female friendship, Happy Hour (2015), Hamaguchi channels Vertigo in a minor key in his new film, which Grasshopper is opening in New York on May 17.Sam’s poster is as elegant and restrained and endearingly odd as the film itself. The doubling of both Asako herself and the title treatment is made to look like off-registered two-color printing which gives the...
- 4/12/2019
- MUBI
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